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09-08-2009, 04:30 PM
Senate president Reinaldo Pared Perez announced the dismissal of 23 workers who are related to senators, in response to an investigative report by TV journalist Alicia Ortega.
Pared announced that dismissals of family members on the public payroll would continue. The move to fire these family members was made after it was revealed that many senators had been using public funds to employ their relatives in non-essential positions or were receiving money without doing anything in return. Nepotism is common in branches of government in the DR.
The Monday TV update on the senators' practice of employing their relatives also revealed the frequent practice of issuing checks in the names of people who were not aware of the payments being made. These checks are then cashed by others. On the show, it was revealed that while nepotism is not a penal offense, forging the endorsement of a check is.
Ortega has made a series of reports on wasteful government spending.
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Pared announced that dismissals of family members on the public payroll would continue. The move to fire these family members was made after it was revealed that many senators had been using public funds to employ their relatives in non-essential positions or were receiving money without doing anything in return. Nepotism is common in branches of government in the DR.
The Monday TV update on the senators' practice of employing their relatives also revealed the frequent practice of issuing checks in the names of people who were not aware of the payments being made. These checks are then cashed by others. On the show, it was revealed that while nepotism is not a penal offense, forging the endorsement of a check is.
Ortega has made a series of reports on wasteful government spending.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)